The format the Big Ten adopted is what the ACC and SEC have run for the past few years. Now both of those conferences abandoned this format and switched to a single elimination tournament, where the lower seeds have to play earlier in the week to fight to play the top seeds later in the week, the same format as the Big Ten uses in basketball.

The two losses officially mark the end of the 2025 season for Michigan State, that saw the Spartans go 28-27, a game above the .500 threshold. It is only the second time in the last seven years that the Spartans have finished above that .500 mark.